Part 243 - Phongmi to Pintsogong entries and letter from Syed Mohammed Kareemulla

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SUMMARY:
A letter from Syed Mohammed Kareemulla reassures the recipient about parcel safety and mailing via Rangiya. Diary entries describe travel from PHONGMI to RUNGZYUNG and PINTSOGONG, cold and windy weather at Tahtu, seed collection of an epiphytic Rhododendron, and problems with prematurely collected flowers leading to discarded delphiniums and limited Meconopsis seed.

CONTENT:
as for me also. I am thanking myself to be fortunate that I have got the opportunity to work for such an Honourable man as you, which I never thought in my life.
P.S. You should not fear your parcel getting damp. I am arranging with Rangiya to send these parcels in the mail bag which is despatched regularly. With regards, yours obediently Syed Mohammed Kareemulla.

29th October. PHONGMI. 9 miles. 5460'. Weather still perfect, morning very cold indeed at Tahtu owing to wind. Sun still pretty hot down here, but wind makes it pleasantly cool all day. Took seeds of 905 — a rather extraordinary epiphytic Rhododendron (580) = Aeschynanthus maculata.

30th October. RUNGZYUNG. 8 miles. 4000'. Looked like rain in the morning, but cleared up. It is very much hotter down here. The man sent to Chukar (Cha La) to get the bagged flowers returned today. He brought most of them, but they had been taken off too soon instead of being left on till his arrival. The result was that the delphiniums were useless and were thrown away. Some of the other seed too was unripe, and he only brought one bag of Meconopsis 708. But still that is better than nothing.

31st Oct. PINTSOGONG. 13 miles. 5200'. We missed out the Dzong today and came straight through. Rather cloudy with rain not very far away. We were rather surprised to